The Whale’s Brendan Fraser attends GQ Men of the Year party as he revels in his incredible Hollywood comeback… but he plans to BOYCOTT Golden Globes
- The 53-year-old actor wore a dark blue suit for the star-studded party held at The West Hollywood Edition in West Hollywood, California
- Brendan in a new interview with GQ declared he ‘will not participate’ in the Golden Globes in January
- The actor alleged four years ago that he was groped in 2003 by Philip Berk, a former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), which is the organization behind the Golden Globes
- Brendan in The Whale portrays Charlie, a 600-pound gay man confined to a wheelchair, and has been receiving rave reviews for his work in the film
- The Whale will be released in the US on December 9 and in the UK on February 3, 2023
Brendan Fraser looked sharp at the GQ Men of the Year Party on Thursday after declaring that he will not attend next year’s Golden Globes despite critical acclaim for his comeback movie The Whale.
The 53-year-old actor wore a dark blue suit for the star-studded party held at The West Hollywood Edition in West Hollywood, California.
Brendan also donned a crisp white dress shirt sans tie and completed his outfit with shiny black dress shoes.
Looking sharp: Brendan Fraser looked sharp at the GQ Men of the Year Party on Thursday after declaring that he will not attend next year’s Golden Globes despite critical acclaim for his comeback movie The Whale
The Mummy franchise star sported a short crew cut hairstyle and also wore black glasses.
Brendan was joined at event by his girlfriend Jeanne Moore who looked lovely in a little black dress with her blonde hair up in a high ponytail.
The actor alleged four years ago that his career ‘withered on a vine’ after he was groped in 2003 by Philip Berk, a former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), which is the organization behind the Golden Globes.
Brendan in a new interview with GQ declared he ‘will not participate’ in the Golden Globes in January.
Star-studded party: The 53-year-old actor wore a dark blue suit for the star-studded party held at The West Hollywood Edition in West Hollywood, California
Cute couple: Brendan was joined at event by his girlfriend Jeanne Moore who looked lovely in a little black dress with her blonde hair up in a high ponytail
Catching up: GQ staff writer Zach Baron chatted with Jeanne and Brendan who declared in a new GQ article that he ‘will not participate’ in the Golden Globes in January
‘I have more history with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than I have respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,’ he told the magazine.
Brendan attributed his decision to ‘the history that I have with them. And my mother didn’t raise a hypocrite. You can call me a lot of things, but not that.’
The actor claimed he brought the matter to the HFPA at the time, which prompted an internal investigation that eventually dismissed the alleged sexual misconduct as ‘a joke.’
Misconduct allegation: Brendan, shown in September in Toronto, alleged four years ago that his career ‘withered on a vine’ after he was groped in 2003 by Philip Berk, a former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), which is the organization behind the Golden Globes
Brendan in The Whale portrays Charlie, a 600-pound gay man confined to a wheelchair, and the film also features Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Ty Simpkins and Samantha Morton.
The movie had its premiere in September at the Venice International Film Festival, where Brendan got emotional onstage during a standing ovation after the screening. Brendan also broke down during another lengthy ovation last month at the London Film Festival.
The Whale is directed by Darren Aronofosky, 53, and is based on the off-Broadway play of the same name, written by Samuel D. Hunter, who came on board as the screenwriter for the film.
The Whale will be released in the US on December 9 and in the UK on February 3, 2023.
Critical acclaim: The Whale stars Brendan as Charlie, a 600-pound gay man confined to a wheelchair, and the film also features Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Ty Simpkins and Samantha Morton
The Whale: Reviews
THE INDEPENDENT
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Geoffrey Macnab writes: ‘Fraser retains the genial qualities which made him so popular with audiences in mainstream 1990s movies. He demands honesty from his students but there’s nothing cynical about him.
‘The pathos is laid on very thick. At times, you wonder why a filmmaker as sophisticated as Aronofsky is resorting to such manipulative tactics. Beneath all its blubber, though, this turns out to be a film with a very big heart.’
NEW YORK POST
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Johnny Oleksinski writes: ‘Fraser, so good, takes what could be a joke, a flat tragedy, or even a lecture about weight and imbues it with gorgeous humanity… It’s a testament to the storytelling that a character so different from so many moviegoers can make us so powerfully contemplate our own lives.’
BBC
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Nicholas Barber writes: ‘Fraser richly deserves to be nominated for a best actor Oscar, and if that doesn’t happen, I won’t just eat my hat, I’ll eat as many pizzas and cheese-and-meatball sandwiches as Charlie gets through in the film. The Brenaissance is here.’
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
Leah Greenblatt writes: ‘Brendan Fraser’s astonishing turn in The Whale is a tender, modest, and momentously human piece of work plonked in the midst of a drama so masochistically stilted and stagey it often feels less like a movie than an endurance test, or even worse, a parody.’
VARIETY
Owen Gleiberman writes: ‘The Whale, while it has a captivating character at its center, turns out to be equal parts sincerity and hokum. The movie carries us along, tethering the audience to Fraser’s intensely lived-in and touching performance, yet the more it goes on the more its drama is interlaced with nagging contrivances’
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